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Arthur C. Brooks

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1763 total appearances

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The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

They don't even know.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

I mean, why do I go to a pottery class?

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

That's for losers.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Any loser can do a bad piece of pottery.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

You can't win a case in front of a jury.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

With his plate.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Their whole sense of self is not in terms of relationships.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

They're not human beings.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

They're human doings.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

And human doings can't have... They don't have enough love.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

They don't have enough room for love in their hearts.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

And so I have to do basic work on guys like this.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Hard work.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Oh, yeah.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

I mean, you got to take them apart piece by piece and put them back together again, quite frankly.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Yeah.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

The thing, the through line, and it's really been the through line of our whole conversation here is that happiness really is love.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Now, what is love?

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

Love isn't a feeling.

The Tamsen Show
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (From Harvard's #1 Happiness Expert)

It's to will the good of someone else as that person.